Cloud and radiative characteristics of tropical deep convective systems in extended cloud objects from CERES observations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 5983-6000

  Eitzen, Zachary A ^a   Xu, Kuan Man ^b   Wong, Takmeng ^b  

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD OPTICAL DEPTH; CLOUD TOP PRESSURE; CLOUD-TOP TEMPERATURES; CLOUDS AND THE EARTH'S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEMS; CONVECTIVE INSTABILITIES; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; CONVECTIVE WEATHER; DC DISTRIBUTION; HARTMANN; INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; JOINT HISTOGRAMS; LARGE OBJECTS; OPTICAL DEPTH; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; RADIATIVE CHARACTERISTICS; RADIATIVE PROPERTIES; RECTANGULAR BOX; SIZE CLASS; THIN CIRRUS; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION SATELLITES; UPWARD MOTION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SATELLITES; SOLAR RADIATION; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; TOOLS; TROPICS;

RAIN;

ALBEDO; CIRRUS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; HISTOGRAM; LONGWAVE RADIATION; OPTICAL DEPTH; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77649330523     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3038.1     Document Type: Article

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